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Carlo Vallati is a researcher specializing in the Internet of Things (IoT), smart city technologies, and industrial wireless networks. His work spans both the societal implications of connected technologies and the deeply technical challenges of enabling reliable industrial communication systems. Vallati's most influential contribution, "IoT Applications in Smart Cities: A Perspective Into Social and Ethical Issues" (2018, 33 citations), examines how IoT is transforming urban environments while critically addressing the social and ethical dimensions often overlooked in technology-driven discourse — a perspective that has resonated strongly across both technical and policy communities. A significant thread of his research focuses on Industrial IoT (IIoT), particularly the 6TiSCH architecture standardized by the IETF. Recognizing that mobility support is a critical gap in this framework, Vallati has tackled the challenge of enabling mobile devices — such as autonomous robots and wearable sensors — within industrial wireless networks. His papers on mobility management (2022, 2024) and the Mobile6TiSCH simulator (2022) reflect a sustained and practical effort to bridge this gap, collectively accumulating over 20 citations. Through rigorous protocol design and simulation tooling, Vallati's work meaningfully advances the reliability and scalability of next-generation industrial wireless deployments.